What on earth is to do ?" "Oh, neighbour! What is to do?
Why, here is the burgomaster blackening our Gerard." "Stop!" cried Van Swieten.

"Peter Buyskens is come in the nick of time.
He knows father and daughter both.

They cast their glamour on him." "What! is she a witch too ?" "Else the egg takes not after the bird.

Why is her father called the magician?
I tell you they bewitched this very Peter here; they cast unholy spells on him, and cured him of the colic: now, Peter, look and tell me who is that?
and you be silent, women, for a moment, if you can; who is it, Peter ?" "Well, to be sure!" said Peter, in reply; and his eye seemed fascinated by the picture.
"Who is it ?" repeated Ghysbrecht impetuously.
Peter Buyskens smiled.

"Why, you know as well as I do; but what have they put a crown on her for?
I never saw her in a crown, for my part." "Man alive! Can't you open your great jaws, and just speak a wench's name plain out to oblige three people ?" "I'd do a great deal more to oblige one of you than that, burgomaster.
If it isn't as natural as life!" "Curse the man! he won't, he won't--curse him!" "Why, what have I done now ?" "Oh, sir!" said little Kate, "for pity's sake tell us; are these the features of a living woman, of--of--Margaret Brandt ?" "A mirror is not truer, my little maid." "But is it she, sir, for very certain ?" "Why, who else should it be ?" "Now, why couldn't you say so at once ?" snarled Ghysbrecht.
"I did say so, as plain as I could speak," snapped Peter; and they growled over this small bone of contention so zealously, that they did not see Catherine and her daughter had thrown their aprons over their heads, and were rocking to and fro in deep distress.